The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-07
SOUTHERN cLEANlNos.

Od.f "uO mas ~ iCESs GtiAk
around town in wagon by two goats.
A Texas farmer says that three good
bulldogs roaming the yard at night will
do more to keep man honest than all the
talking in the world.
Indian river, Florida, is said TO be the
straghtest in the world. A straight line
can be drawn through II for seventy five
miles without tou ching shore. .t ..'
A man at Americus, GA, went to bed
thinking so intently OF mulberry tree
that he was to transplant in the morning
that he got up in his sleep and transplated
the tree and went back to bed without
waking up. .
The hotel at Cages Springs, william
son County, Tenn, was burned few days
ago There were large number OF
guests in the building, but all escaped
uninlured The hotel was owned by
Stafford & Daniel, and the loss is 900;
covered by insurance.
james Hoskins, Of Owensboro, KY,
took ten cents worth of morphine few
days since at a single doze. As soou as 1t
was discovered that he had taken the
poison DIR. {. II. Todd was sent for, and
by judicious employ ment of antidotes his
life was saved.
Hope Croft, tGn-yearold boy, is under
arrest at Quitman, Ga, for having sst fire
TO two school buildings which were
burned, because he did not want to attend
school. He was caught while trying to
fire q third building, which had been
secured to conduct the school in II
The West Tennessee ealored citizens
will hold their fair this year at jackson,
III October.
A two o-mort tbs old calf in o W en- County,
KY, weighs 275 pounds. -,
Henry Georges land theories are hav.
ing a great spread in louisiana Seven
teen Land and Labor clubs have been or
ganized In New Orleans.
Anti-treating societies are being organ
lied in various Georgia cities, and already
embrace a mum erous and Influential NOM
bership.
The schooner James b. Jordan went
ashore on Western Dry Rocks, near Key
West, Fla, few days ago. She was
loaded with railroad iron from Perth Am
boy, N j., for Galveston, Tx.
The grand jury at Jackson, Miss, re.
turned two indictments against Jones s.
Hamilton and L. NJ Eubanks, charging
them separately with the murder of
Roderick Dhu Gambrell:
Joe Mulhatton, who is more or less
known to fame as one Of the great liars
of the country, is now living in Louis
vile, Ky. He never smokes nor drinks
and is extremely generous with his
money He is a successful drummer. He
win work month on some startlingya yarn
not half column in length, and his sto-
ries have always had wide circulation in
the newspapers.
The confederate cavalry commander,
General j. 4. b. Stuart. who was killed
in a desperate cavalry fight at Yellow
Tavern, near Richmond. Va, in 1884 is to
have a monument. A commits ssion, OF
which Governor Lee, of Virginia, is chair
man, has been formed, and steps will be
taken to erect such a monument as will
be worthy of one Of his prowess.
Tom King, colored, shot and instantly
killed his wife, at Ashevtlle, n. t., a few
days ago. He claims it was accidental: He
says he was going hunting, and the gun
went off. King was arrested and taken
before a magistrate in much distress and
weeping bitterly.
Ambrose Lake, colored, was shot and
fatally wounded near Shelbyville, Tenn,
a few days since, by William Temple.
After Lake had assaulted Temple with
stones, Temple returned home, and, Sc
curing a gun, renewed the difficulty and
fired upon the negro. Temple had not
been arrested. ...
Ed Turley and Thos. Fogle, the latter
a prominent citizen of Rockport, KY, be-
came involved in a quarrel at that place, a
few days since, over q business matter.
Turley seized heavy chair and broke 1t
to pieces over Fogles head, cutting his
scalp badly and fracturing his skull. He
was thought to be beyond relief and Tur-
ley is in Gus tody to await the result of his
injuries. -.t
Northern capitalists are rapidly &C
quiring all the pine lands in Southern
Alabama that are still owned by the Gov
ernment, and that can be had for 81. 25 ar
acre. Elihu and William Jackson, OF
Maryland, have just purchased 1900
IN Covington County, and 20,0O0 acres
were bought by another party about q
month ago,
R. T. Cohen, a we'll known transfer
agent of Danvi'le, Va, was shot and
killed few nights ago by Charles Saylor.
Three other young men have been. ar
rested as accessories, and the homicide
has created much excitement. 1t is said
that the shooting grew out Of an affair in
which a young woman was concerned,
and Say lor was heard TO say that he would
kill Cohen before morning. Meeting
Cohen at later hour on the street he
opened fire on him and shot him to death.
The Chief of Police of Nashville, Tenn,
received u tele gram a few days ago an
nOuncing the arrest in East ST. Louis, Ill.
of Ben Bray, colored, who shot and killed
Joseph Frizzell, and dangerously wound ed
James Booker, also colorei, in Nashville
on the 18th inst. Chief Kerrigan tele
graphed the East st. Louis authorities to
hold Bray until an officer would arrive.
He subse quently learned that Bray had
made Il full confe ssiOn, and that he re-
fused to return to Tennessee without q
reQusition. Whereupon Detective Cost
cen left for Illinois. Bray is desperate
character, and two years ago, aided by
his brother Nose Bray, severely cut two
other negroes The shooting of Frizzell
was without provocation.
Jack Dillard, a car coupler, was butted
to d death at Columbia, s. c., few days
ago by Scott Logan, fireman on a switch
engine, in the Richmond Il Danyil!e rail-
road yard in Columbia. Both were ne
groes. The two men Quarreled about a
woman, and after a few blows had been
passed they cliRched when billiard,
grasping Logan by the throat pushed
him up against the side of a freight car
and held him there at arms length.
Logan finally recovered his wind. and
catching his antagonist by the ears butted
him several times between the eyes with
terri BILE force, producing concussion OF
the brain" t''.-.
Yellow fever don't seem to spread.
Mrs. s. A. Gordon, widow OF Rev. r. H
Gordon aud step p mother of Governor John
u a., "a
dence OF her grandson, Mr.. VT. Quarles,
nenI. DexfnrL Ala RECENTLY ~ She. WAS